BRITISH LABOUR
CONFERENCE OF PARTY Attitude to the Lords (Aus. N.Z. Cable Assn. 7 (Received ctober 2 at 11.10 p.m.) LONDON. October 2. After .‘-ome nois v scenes between the representatives of Sir Stafford Cripps’ Socialist League and the Trade Union section of Labour at the Southport Labour Party conference the conference considered the problem of the House of Lords. Though Sir Stafford Cripps is anxious 'to go l all out for Ithe abolition of the Hou.re <f Lords, (he final result of the discussion was the declaration thalf both sections of Labour are now agreed that a struggle against tho House of Lord shall only I'.akc place if the House of Lords; mutilated. delayed or rejected socialist legislation. ATr Lee-Smith warned the Labour Party that there was danger in bringing the Crown into the cons'tiitut'ional struggle, as i't was the very thing which would produce Fascism, which at the p*re,-ent time was very far away.
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Grey River Argus, 3 October 1934, Page 5
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